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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Add Name ID to the Application Information in Employee Access|FastTrack Screener|Open Applications|View Application Information

    Add Name ID to the Application Information in Employee Access|FastTrack Screener|Open Applications|View Application Information and Employee Access|FastTrack Screener|Applications by Position|View Applications|View Application Information. We are currently usingFileBound's Connect to store all of our HR documentation. We integrate on the Employee ID. This would allow our hiring managers to review current employee applicants' HR records without having to make a trip to the central office.
    This has already been added to Human Resources|Employee Administration|FastTrack|Applicants|Application Information, but our Hiring Managers do not have rights to this area. Please see attached.

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea to the Ideas Portal.

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    Thank you,
    Ashley Prinsen
    Product Owner

  2. Payroll Change History

    Need the History button turned into an audit report. Need the ability to list all changes to payroll records just like you can list changes from the vendor side.

    6 votes

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  3. Cash Receipts to Print Additional Dates

    Currently cash receipts only print the "Receipt" Date on the final receipt. I believe that date pulls from the date on the detail page. We would like the option of entering a "deposit" date (at bank), an "entered" date (into Skyward and a "posting" or batch update date (in Skyward) on the detail page. It would be very helpful when looking at the printed receipt (like our auditors do) to have all of these dates available to anyone that needs to see it.

    All of our schools make their bank deposit for TBR, Food Service and Child Care into one…

    2 votes

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  4. Add the building to the Account Distribution Report

    Please add additional fields like building to the Acct Dist Report. This is very helpful for costing analysis .

    2 votes

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  5. Pay multiple invoices on one check in SBAA

    It would be fantastic if we could pay multiple purchase orders with one check in SBAA..... similar to what we can do on the Financial Management side. Currently, if I have 20 open purchase orders to Cardmember Services, I am writing 20 individual checks. Time-consuming and a waste of check stock. Thanks for your consideration.

    11 votes

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  6. Preferred Name in FastTrack

    Add a field for preferred name to FastTrack.

    2 votes

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  7. TRS Reports

    We need a report that we can run to tell us how many days & hours have been reported for any employee(s) per month or school year to TRS. TRS has identified some of our employees that had no days or hours reported for several months. I don't have a way to run a report to check on all employees. These hours are reported on RP20 & RP25 reports in different months. The days/hours are not in one single place.
    This is a new problem, but one that I have always been concerned about with that first year since the…

    3 votes

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  8. Employee Type Code Count

    In PAC there is a report that will generate employee type codes totals or a breakdown for active and inactive. This would be nice in WEB as well.

    2 votes

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  9. Allow approvers to edit exp accts

    Allow invoice approvers to edit expense accounts. This would let them make any changes without having to send it back and forth multiple times. Something that would also be helpful is if the expense accounts could be shown as part of the "grid" that you can see without having to do a drop down.

    12 votes

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  10. need fields added on position tab

    Since the view option was removed from the PAC side we are missing valuable information such as number of days the employee is working in the contract period. The calendar is listed however for those employees that start after the start of the year we can't see how many days without going into WEB, assignments, opening all... We used this information to figure retirement hours since the system doesn't know how to give 8 hours when an employee is 1.0 fte at 7.0 and 7.5 hours nor does it look at the total hours and divide over the number of…

    2 votes

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  11. Ability to print batch reports in Data Mining

    When I run batch reports in data mining, I used to be able to print all in order of report in the batch. Now I have to open each one individually and print one at a time. We used to print these all as one big batch in PAC, but during some upgrade we lost that functionality. Now in PAC or web, we have to open each one individually and then print.

    7 votes

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  12. Ability to Data Mine Employee Profile list of Attachments

    We need the ability to Data Mine the list of attachments that are on an employee's profile.

    12 votes

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  13. PS\WF\AM\UT\AM (Account Merge): Add a way to do this via import.

    PS\WF\AM\UT\AM (Account Merge): Add a way to do this via import. We have an extra six digits so we can't use the mass merge option, but even if that weren't the case, this still seems like a good area to do an import.

    1 vote

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  14. Move columns are in all screens.

    It would be very helpful to be able to reorganize columns in all screens in order to get the information your district is looking for in order of importance to us. Another system I used was able to drag the columns around.

    2 votes

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  15. Budget Requisition - School year display

    When employees are entered budget requisitions, it would be so helpful if it was possible that limit their access to certain school years. This is possible when entering purchasing requisitions so it would only make sense to do this in budget requisitions. Staff get so confused. I know it is a training issue but sometimes, training is just not enough.

    1 vote

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  16. Contract Tab, have an option to update the pay record with the new contract paid start/stop dates at the bottom

    When updating a contract in the contract tab, there are options at the bottom to "Update Pay Records, Update Inactive Pay Records, Change Pay Record frequency to this frequency if different." There needs to be an option that says "Update pay record with contract start/stop dates." This would help with those that coach especially. The contract is updated, but if the pay record has last year's pay start/stop dates, it does not update. You have to manually put in the new paid start/stop dates.

    16 votes

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  17. protect notes access by groups rather than by person

    Currently, staff can protect a note and only they can view it. I would like the option to give access of protected notes to groups of people rather than one person individually. Example: our middle school principal protects a note and student moves to high school. Now, no one can view that note and we have to call the middle school principal to unprotect it so that our high school principal can view it. WOuld be great if people in a specific group can view protected notes no matter who protected it.

    2 votes

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  18. PO notes available under vendors

    When a note is added to a specific PO, the note does not show up on the vendor tab (under notes), but attachments do. Can the notes show up like attachments do?

    7 votes

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  19. Customized Subject Line and Body for awaiting approval emails

    Is there a way for the name of the employee submitting a transaction to show on Skyward email notifications?

    Currently, the only information received for "Credit Card transaction(s) awaiting approval" emails is the Date, Amount, and Where Used.

    Similarly, for "Check Request(s) awaiting approval" emails, would it be possible to include the username of the user who submitted the check request and/or the check request number ?

    1 vote

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  20. Paid Special Request how it ties into the timesheet

    I would like to see it show up in a True Time timesheet, when someone has a request for Paid Special Request, that it show me WHAT option they chose tied to the PSR. Like it should say PSR, conference or PSR, PD hours. This is super confusing when trying to process timesheets. I would like it defined more within the timesheet itself.

    1 vote

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